Fan attachment for sewing-machines



(No Model.)

I. CARTER.

FAN ATTACHMENT FOR SEWING MACHINES. No. 338,925. Patented Mar. 80, 1886.

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FOSTER CARTER, OF SHREVEPORT, LOUISIANA.

FAN ATTACHMENT FOR SEWING-MACHINES.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 338,925, dated March30, 1886.

Application filed January 26, 1886. Serial No. 189,817.

To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, FOSTER CARTER, a citizen of the United States,residing at Shreveport, in the parish of Oaddo, State of Louisiana, haveinvented certain new and useful Improvements in Fan Attachments forSewing Machines of which the following is a specification, referencebeing had therein to the accompanying drawings.

My invention relates to fan attachments for sewing-machines; and itconsists in the construction and novel combination of parts, as will behereinafter fully described, and particularly pointed out in the claims.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure 1 is a view in perspective of myfan attachment connected to the sewing-machine and with the treadle ofthe machine in a manner ready to be operated. Fig. 2 is a detailperspective view of the fan-post, cross-arm, fan-arm, fan, retractingspring, and operating-cord, and Fig. 3 a perspective detail view of thebracket bar or arm by which the operating-cord is connected to thetreadle of the sewing-machine.

Referring by letters to the accompanying drawings, A designates thesewing-machine, which'may be of any of the well-known patterns oftreadle-operated machines,and B is the treadle ofthe same,and B is thetable of the sewing-machine. The fan-postOis provided near its lower endwith two jaws, D D, the lower one, D, of which is provided with athumbscrew, E, by which the fan-post is securely fastened to the rearedge of the machine-table when it is desired to use the fan attachment.Near its upper end the fan'post is provided with a cross-arm, F, whichis stationary, and which, when the attachment is in place, is parallelwith the rear edge of the table-top. Pivoted upon a pin or bearing, G,at the upper end of the fan-shaft is the fan-arm H, which is provided atits forward end, I, with a horizontally-adjustable fan, J, the handle Jof which is held in a socket in the end of the pivoted [No model.)

fan-arm by a set-screw, K, and is adjustable in its seat, so that it maybe projected or retracted, as may be desired. The other end of thefan-arm H is connected by a retractingspring, L, to the end of thecross-arm F nearest the end N of the fan-arm. The operatingcord 0 isconnected to the rear end of the fanarm H, and runs over a pulley, P, atthe end Q of the crossarm F farthest from the retracting-spring, andruns down to the rear end of the bracket-bar S, to the rear end of whichit is connected. Sare the brackets for said bar S.

From the foregoing description, taken in connection with the drawings,it will be readily seen that when the treadle of the sewingmachine shallbe operated the fan-arm will be oscillated and the fan thereby be put inoperation, so that the operators hands may be devoted exclusively to thework and the sewing-machine.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim as new, and desire tosecure by Letters Patent of the United States, is-

l. The combination, with the fansfandard having the clamps near itslower end, and the cross'arm F near its upper end, of the fan-arm andfan, the spring connecting the cross-arm and fan'arm, the pulley on thecross-arm, the operating-cord, and the bracketbar S, substantially asspecified.

2. The combination, with a sewing-machine, of the fan-standard providedwith the attaching-clamp near its lower end and the pivotpin in itsupper end, of the rigid cross-arm with pulley at one end, the pivotedfan-arm, the adjustable fan at the end of the fan-arin, theretracting-spring, and the operating-cord and bracket-bar S,substantially as specified.

In testimony whereof I affix my signature in presence of two witnesses.

FOSTER CARTER.

\Witnesses:

J. J. SrooKwELL, J. P. ALBAN.

